RTWCS Video: Ledig House Readings
OK, as I found out yesterday, this is the only other recording we have for this season’s RTWCS. Unfortunately—really effing unfortunately—we had some technical difficulties with the Barbara Epler & Susan Bernofsky Walser event (which was one of the best events EVER) and didn’t capture either the ...
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Haunting the Present: A Conversation with the Authors
Where: The Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street, New York, NY The Center for Fiction welcomes all eight New Literature from Europe authors for two conversations with distinguished writer and Professor André Aciman. 6:30 pm Featuring Radka Denemarková, Jenny Erpenbeck, Olga Tokarczuk, Kirmen Uribe. 7:45 pm ...
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Translating a Past that Haunts the Present
Where: CUNY Grad Center , 365 Fifth Avenue , New York, NY (Room 9100) Acclaimed authors Jenny Erpenbeck and Philippe Claudel join their American translators, Susan Bernofsky and John Cullen, to discuss the delicate art of incorporating the fraught history of Germany and France during WWII into their fiction and then ...
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RTWCS: The State of International Publishing
It’s taken us a while, but below is the first of three recordings from this season’s Reading the World Conversation Series. (It’s been suggested that we change this to the Reading Around the World, so that the acronym would be RAWCuS . . . Not bad, not bad.) This was actually the second event of the ...
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Haunting the Present: A Reading with Eight European Writers
Where: McNally-Jackson Books , 52 Prince St. at Lafayette, New York, NY 10017 Today’s Europe is a fascinating convergence of old and new, with high speed trains roaring past thousand-year-old towns. The past and present are never far away from each other, and this year’s New Literature from Europe festival explores ...
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New Literature from Europe 2010
Just a reminder that the New Literature from Europe festival kicks off tonight with an event at McNally Jackson at 7pm. This year’s festival is called “Haunting the Present,” and here’s a brief intro from the site: Today’s Europe is a fascinating convergence of old and new, with high speed ...
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Two Lines Call for Submissions
Two Lines recently put a call out for submissions to its forthcoming 18th volume. Great magazine, that always has brilliant guest editors: The eighteenth annual installment of Two Lines will be edited by Luc Sante and Rosanna Warren, and we’re looking for the best of the best new translations in any genre (poetry, ...
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